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- From: billj@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Bill Jones)
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- Subject: Re: Human Computers....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.142638.23926@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:26:38 GMT
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- Eskinder Sahle (sahle@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
- : Hello all:
- :
- : I need some help.... I'm looking for examples in fiction literature
- : of super sophisticated communicative computers a la HAL. That is,
- : computers that talk and communicate like humans. I'm not so much
- : interested in those instances where it's a robot that cannot be
- : distinguished from a human being as in computers sounding human without
- : being almost totally human-like.... .
- :
- : Thanks in advance.
- : Ahmed
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- I'm not sure how informative it would be, but an entertaining suggestion would
- be ME by Thomas T. Thomas.
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- BJ.
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